the-artifabrian

Just joined the forum! I wrote this kidfic last year, but it seems pretty relevant with the release of Oathbringer! It doesn't seem overtly jossed, whew. Title: Brothers in Arms Summary: Years before they reunite a kingdom, Gavilar and Dalinar discover they have the makings of an invincible team.

So we know that Both Gavilar and Dalinar were on the Bondsmith path for a long time, Gavilar longer than Dalinar. In Oathbringer, we see Dalinar nearly killing Gavilar under the influence of the Thrill. Did Odium know that Gavilar was going to take on Bondsmith powers and deliberately tried to drive Dalinar to get rid of him? Also, it's confirmed that Dalinar was also on the Bondsmith path for "a long time", and I'm not sure that the couple of years between Gavilar's death and Dalinar bonding the Stormfather qualify. If both of them were meant to bond with the Stormfather, that suggests Gavilar somehow fell off the path before then, but what we know about Gavilar's last years and his fixation on keeping Alethkar united makes that unlikely. The other possibility is that Gavilar and Dalinar were meant to bond to different spren. We know that there are three Bondsmith sprens, and I'm seeing people theorize that each might correspond to a different Shard. Maybe Gavilar was supposed to bond to a spren other than the Stormfather, but he had a serious Honor aesthetic going on with the Sons of Honor and whatnot. But the possibility that seems most interesting is: what if Gavilar was on the path to bond to the Stormfather, Honor's Bondsmith spren, and Dalinar was originally meant to bond with Odium's?